Securities filings show the president's two eldest sons hold a stake in the Kazakh tungsten project Washington is bankrolling with up to $1.6 billion — a rare, documented overlap between presidential power and family profit, set against the global scramble for a metal China controls.
Japan said on Wednesday that China had detained two of its citizens in the port city of Dalian over an alleged rare-earth export attempt. The case surfaced as Beijing opened a whistleblower hotline for illegal mineral exports, sharpening a rivalry that runs through every economy — Europe's included — dependent on Chinese supply.
QASM, a cold-atom interferometer designed to detect critical minerals and water from orbit, will see its first lab demonstrations in 2026 under a contract between the LSA and Canadian Space Mining Corporation.